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...Supreme Soviet voted to return administrative control over the region to the Azerbaijanis. Enraged, the Armenian parliament voted two weeks ago to include Nagorno-Karabakh in its next five-year economic plan, a move that may have prompted Azerbaijanis to seize government buildings in the Caspian Sea port of Lenkoran...
AZERBAIJAN. Citizens promptly protested Armenia's actions, blockading government offices and seizing a local radio station in the Caspian Sea port of Lenkoran. An officer of the Interior Ministry troops on peacekeeping duty in Nagorno-Karabakh was killed in the village of Akhullu. Azerbaijanis wearing bulletproof vests and carrying automatic weapons attacked Manashid, another village in the disputed district. Farther south, in the Nakhichevan region, where Azerbaijanis are demanding an open frontier with their ethnic kin across the border in Iran, angry crowds continued to tear down border installations and destroy guard posts...
...they struck. A mob of some 7,500 tore up boundary markers and pulled down border posts and watchtowers. Similar attacks over the next two days spread along 500 miles of the border, crippling the communications network in a string of towns from Zangelan to the Lenkoran region on the Caspian Sea. Thousands of Soviet Azerbaijanis gathered on the banks of the Araks River, the natural divide between the Soviet Union and Iran, set up loudspeakers and urged their Iranian kinsmen to join in a crusade for a unified homeland...